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...Islamic rule throughout the West. Americans have three choices: submit to their will, convert to Islam or fight. I prefer that we - and all freedom-loving people - stand up to terrorism no matter who is sponsoring it. Robert Reichert Punta Gorda, Florida, U.S. Beyer's statement that Hizballah's main goal is "to defend Lebanon from Israel" is appalling. Anyone who understands Arabic or has listened to Hizballah's occasional statements in English knows that the group aims to destroy Israel. To doubt that is to accept the doublespeak of Hizballah propagandists and apologists. Aryeh Green Beit Shemesh, Israel Radical...
...Katrina's tidal surge brought about four feet of water into the main public area of the casino, but the entire structure has been renovated and refreshed from top to bottom, said Nourse. Unlike other gambling barges, which rode the tidal waters, the Beau Rivage spent $25 million during initial construction to semi-submerge its barge, like offshore oil platforms. Because its barge was not moved by Katrina, it will continue to be used for gaming...
...main fault line is not so much religion, but the legacy of war: Muslims, who were ill-prepared for the war, took much more casulties than Serbs, who were well armed and supported by Serbia; they now feel that Serbs were unjustly rewarded by being allowed to have their own statelet in Bosnia. Tihic, and other leading Muslim politicians have repeatedly stated that Republika Srpska "is built on genocide and agression" and should therefore be abolished. Serbian leaders, such as Srpska's Prime Minister Milorad Dodik, would have none of that. "Serbs are sick and tired of being collectively treated...
...pilots prepared Comair Flight 5191 for takeoff in the predawn darkness Sunday, they talked with air traffic controllers about Runway 22, Blue Grass Airport's main strip for commercial flights, a federal official said on CNN on Monday after listening to tapes recovered from the crashed plane's cockpit and the control tower. Somehow, the commuter jet and its 50 occupants ended up on Runway 26 instead, a cracked surface meant for small planes that was much too short for the twin-engine jet. The pilots tried to lift off, but the plane clipped trees, then quickly crashed...
...gathered evidence, documentation and from the flight data recorder, that the runway that the crew used was Runway 26." The two runways at the Lexington airport cross in an X pattern. To get from the terminal to the head of Runway 22, the airport's 7,000-ft.-long main strip, the plane would have had to pass the entry point to the 3,500-ft.-long Runway...